Activating Web Pages

In order for your web pages to become publically available you must do the following:

  • Create a directory named "public_html" in the root directory of your account if one does not already exist.
  • Change the permissions on "public_html" to 755.
  • Create a main web page named "index.html" within "public.html".
  • Change the permissions on "index.html" to 644.
  • If you want a link in the Computer Science Department pages, ask the webmaster to create one for you.
  • If you want to use server side includes and cgi programs you must create a file in the directory "public_html" named ".htaccess" which contains the following lines:
    Options all                                                                     
    AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .html
    AddType application/x-httpd-cgi .cgi                                            
    

You can find tutorials and reference material on on writing html on the web.